Help a fåål

[IrwinBadman]

Howdy, I just received my first keyboard like this and while I'm extremely excited, I'm also a big fool when it comes to tech but I didn't think it would be this hard to get ÄÅÖ on the keyboard when I bought it. Do you think there could be a way to somehow make those letters and other such available in the editor?

[nickcoutsos]

Hi @IrwinBadman

I think the best way is going to be to include the appropriate headers from zmk-locale-generator. I can't tell specifically which language you're after, so just taking German as an example, you could:

1. Go to the latest release of zmk-locale-generator
2. Find your desired language, such as keys_de.h
3. Add the file to your repository under the config/ folder
4. Include the file in your keymap by adding the line #include "keys_de.h" (somewhere near the top, with the other #include ... lines)

From this point you can use keycodes like DE_A_UMLAUT in your keymap, e.g. &kp DE_A_UMLAUT. When you load a keymap that contains the include statement in step 4 Keymap Editor will recognize the zmk-locale-generator header and the additional keycodes and symbols will be available for selection in the UI.

Note: behind the scenes these localized keycodes map to standard QWERTY keycodes, and the expectation is that in your Operating System you'll configure the input to match the intended language.